November 16
Bennie
World Capitals
Word Play
Random
100

This animated Disney film featuring a talking raccoon premiered on November 16, 1995.

What is Pocahontas?

100

This city in Ohio is where Bennie went to school for her undergraduate degree

What is Cincinnati? 

100

This is the capital of Canada

What is Ottawa?

100

What seven-letter “C” word means to exist in the present time, the fastest-moving part of a water stream, or flowing electric charge?

Current

100

This is the state Bennie is from in Nigeria

What is Plateau State

200

On November 16, 1959, The Sound of Music premiered in this city, known for its thriving Broadway scene.

What is New York City?

200

This is Bennie's full name

what is "Nanbenmun"

200

This is the capital of Africa's most populated country

What is Abuja

200

If you combine a word meaning the opposite of “old”, and a shirt that athletes wear that links them to their team, you get what 30th state alphabetically in the U.S.?

New Jersey

200

This  is the least common M&M color? 

What is Brown

300

This canal, connecting the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea, opened on November 16, 1869.

What is the Suez Canal?

300

This is an African country that Bennie has not traveled to 1. Rwanda 2. Kenya 3. South Africa 4. Ethiopia 5. Togo


.What is South Africa

300

This is Nigeria's capital before it was moved to Abuja

What is Lagos

300

What are two five-letter homophones, one of which means "to stop a car" and one of which means "to shatter in pieces?" Homophones are words that are spelled differently but pronounced the same.

Brake and Break

300

"Let's get down to business, to defeat the huns" is a line from what Disney movie? 

What is Mulan

400

This U.S. President famously stated, “Tear down this wall!” and celebrated the fall of the Berlin Wall on November 16, 1989.

Who is Ronald Reagan?

400

This is Bennie's first major in college until she switched to Psychology

What is Nursing? 

400

This is the capital of the largest country in the world 

What is Moscow?  

400

When spoken aloud, what 8-letter word can (depending on how you pronounce it) either be a noun meaning a way to get into a building, or a verb meaning to put someone under a spell?  

Entrance

400

This is where were French fries invented?

What is Belgium

500

On November 16, 1532, this empire was overtaken by Spanish forces in the Andes Mountains.

What is the Inca Empire?

500

This is a state in the US that Bennie HAS traveled to

1. Louisiana 2. California 3. Michigan 4. West Virginia

What is Louisiana 

500

This is the capital of the only country that is also a continent ? 

What is Canberra?

500

Marcy, Juno, and Max are all first names, but if you give each one a different last letter, they're all turn into what unit of time?

Month

500

This animal has the highest blood pressure?

What is Giraffe